Bananas
Subtitle: how the United Fruit Company shaped the world
By: Peter Chapman.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Canongate; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Edinburgh; New York; [Berkeley, Calif.?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781841958811
Subjects: United Fruit Company -- History.; United Fruit Company -- Corrupt practices.; Banana trade -- Central America -- History.; Bananas -- Social aspects.; International business enterprises -- Corrupt practices.; Central America -- History -- 1951-1979.
Notes: Originally published as: Jungle capitalists.

Map on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-215) and index.
Table of contents: title: From the memory of men; title: Lament for a dying fruit; title: Roots of empire; title: Monopoly; title: The banana man; title: Taming the enclave; title: Banana republics; title: On the inside; title: Coup; title: 'Betrayal'; title: Decline and fall; title: Old and dark forces; title: Epilogue: United fruit world.